Little Rot

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying to outrun and outmatch a powerful, underground world One weekend. The elite underbelly of a Nigerian city. A breakup that starts a spiral. A party that goes awry. A tangled web of sex and lies and corruption that leaves no one unscathed. Aima and Kalu are a longtime couple who have just split. When Kalu, reeling from his loss, visits a sex party hosted by his best friend, Ahmed, he makes a decision that will plunge them all into chaos, brutally upending their lives. Ola and Souraya, two Nigerian sex workers visiting from Kuala Lumpur, intersect with the three old friends as everything goes to hell. Sucked into the city’s corrupt underworld, they’re all looking for a way out of the trouble they’ve instigated, driven by loss and fueled by a desperate need to escape the dangerous threat that looms over them. They careen madly in the face of the poison of power, sexual violence, murder, betrayals. With each novel, with each creation, Akwaeke Emezi shows their genius as a storyteller, as a visionary force who has created a thrilling tale of sex, power, and deviance in

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Akwaeke Emezi
• Editore: Riverhead
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.06.2024
• EAN: 9780593852811
• ISBN: 978-0-593-85281-1
• Pagine: 288
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Psychological, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Narrative theme: love / relationships